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“Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans”: Key Concepts and a Critical Revision on SUMPs Guidelines

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Cities play a fundamental role not only in the growth processes under the sustainability paradigm, but also as a driving-force behind economy and they constitute places of connectivity and innovation. More than two thirds of the European population live in urban areas and this percentage is continuously growing. Therefore, cities are fundamental hubs of the transport system, since most journeys start or end within urban areas. The direct consequence is that many of the negative transport externalities, such as congestion, road accidents and pollution, have the greatest impacts in these contexts. The European Commission emphasized integrated planning at all mobility level to enhance new forms of sustainable urban mobility, in order to reduce externalities associated with transport sector. In this view, the aim of this paper is to analyze the European guidelines for the development and the implementation of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) and the corresponding Italian guidelines for the preparation of so-called “Piani Urbani della Mobilità Sostenibile” (PUMS). A comparative evaluation is proposed to emphasize the new paradigm of sustainable transport planning and highlight critical evidence between the European legal tools and their transposition at national level, also in the light of their recent updates. The results of this analysis lay the basis for the critical assessment of best practices and the review of related SUMP, in order to identify the key elements to assist traffic planners and managers in their decision-making procedures for the identification of successful strategies and the implementation of effective actions towards sustainable mobility.

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This paper is the result of the joint work of the authors. ‘Abstract’ ‘Urban Mobility and Transport Sector: Statistic Evidences’ and ‘Theoretical and legal framework: from the European to the Italian perspective’ with subparagraphs were written jointly by Vincenza Torrisi and Chiara Garau. Vincenza Torrisi wrote the ‘Discussion and conclusions’. Chiara Garau wrote the ‘‘Introduction’; Matteo Ignaccolo and Giuseppe Inturri coordinated the research.

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This work has been partially financed by the University of Catania within the project “Piano della Ricerca Dipartimentale 2016-2018” of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the project “Piano per la Ricerca 2016-2018 - Linea di intervento 2” of the Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering. This study was also supported by the MIUR (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research [Italy]) through a project entitled WEAKI TRANSIT: WEAK-demand areas Innovative TRANsport Shared services for Italian Towns (Project code: 20174ARRHT; CUP Codes: E44I17000050001, F74I19001290001), financed with the PRIN 2017 (Research Projects of National Relevance) programme. We authorize the MIUR to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes, notwithstanding any copyright notations thereon. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the MIUR.

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    Vincenza Torrisi & Matteo Ignaccolo

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR), University of Cagliari, 09129, Cagliari, Italy

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  3. Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering (DIEEI), University of Catania, 95125, Catania, Italy

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Torrisi, V., Garau, C., Ignaccolo, M., Inturri, G. (2020). “Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans”: Key Concepts and a Critical Revision on SUMPs Guidelines. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. ICCSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58820-5_45

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